If so, then allow me to apologise for the junk mail you are about to receive from our tourism board…
Wouldn’t be junk mail if they sent little foil pacs of whisky with it. 
I have some Scottish ancestry many generations back, and I have the red hair that has carried down through generations from the Scots side. And my favorite slow air is Neil Gow’s Lament on the Death of His Second Wife. 
I’d love to see Scotland, but I doubt I’ll ever make it there.
However, I don’t have enough Scots ancestry that I’d categorize myself that way on a census. I’m more Swedish than anything else that I know of (one grandmother was Swedish), and there’s probably more German than Scot in my genes, and who knows what all else. I’m an American mongrel. 
Interesting. While I am decidedly of direct Scottish descent, I don’t recall ever answering such a question on a census.
I’m decended from a bizarre union of dark elves and dwarves. There wasn’t a corresponding catagory on the census.
Yeah, but they have special ways of finding you, so you’re bound to be getting their tourism hard-sell soon anyway.
Why would some one want to visit a place that they or their parents crossed an ocean to leave? If I were Japan I would be sending these people fliers. Something like “Japan, It’s nothing like Scotland”.
PS, A bit annoyed to be sold out yet again by the US government.
I do, I seem to recall it said something to the effect of what is your ancestry and/or ethnic origin. I put down Irish but that really was a little silly. My father was Irish, my mother was Irish but with a German Irish mother(Beever) with a Welsh father and Welsh is how she answered her form. My great grandmother on my father’s side was Scottish and she ran/ruled the family for three generations at least, so culturally my dad was more Scottish/English than Irish even though he was born, raised and schooled in Sligo and Dublin and had an all Irish mother also known as the wicked witch of the…
Question 10 but only on the Long form (PDF of The Twenty-Second United States Census form).
“10 What is this person’s ancestry or ethnic origin?”
It never fails to amaze me how many little boxes are there to be ticked on the English Census form.
Black/ whatever country, culture, background etc..etc..
Not one box for being Irish.
We are the largest ethnic minority in this country, not that any of us ever considered us to be part of a minority.
We do pay a lot of tax and stuff.
Slan,
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I think my Uncle John has traced our line back to pre-Kenneth MacAlpin.
But I don’t recall finding “Scot’s descent” on the census. Or Pictish, for that matter…
Some people in every country in Europe have red hair: it’s not entirely a Scottish or Irish trait; I was instructed on this fact by a red-headed lady from Kosovo.
Red hair would have come in with the Vikings and wherever they happened to pause to breed with the locals would have been the source of the red hair (and much of the blond).
djm
My red hair, what’s left of it anyway, came from me dad.
I’m Scot on my liver’s side.
Hair color aside, where is this Scot ancestry listed on the census thingy? Is it a UK census thingy?
No, US census. Why would Visit Scotland send stuff to everyone who said they were Scottish on the UK census? Most of them would already be here.
I just went to the Census site. There are about 11 million Americans who identified themselves as Scots, Scots-Irish ancestry. The Irish are #2 after German ancestry claims in the US. I read recently that red hair is becoming extinct.
I don’t doubt that. In my family line, it seems to come down through the Scottish side of the family. Mixing with the blonde Swedes probably helped the red hair gene get expressed – dark coloring seems to be dominant.
Well, I keep expecting mine to go grey any day – I’m around the age that I remember my mother was when she started having fits about finding grey hairs. 
Hair dye is really not my style so when the natural color goes I shall be a redhead no longer.
I still see quite a few red-haired children running about (and no, they aren’t all mine! 
), so I don’t believe red hair is dying out in the population as a whole. Where did you hear that red hair is becoming extinct?